New series delivered to BBC One in early January Hot on the heels of the New Year’s Eve special, we re-join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton) as a neighbour’s delivery is left with them for safekeeping. When Lee unknowingly pulls apart the packaging only to...
JOHN HANNAH, KRISHNAN GURU-MURTHY, NICOLA COUGHLAN, RYLAN CLARK-NEAL, SHIRLEY BALLAS For the first time ever, the Taskmaster’s doors will be flung open to ring in the new year with a brand new, one-off special, ‘Taskmaster’s New Year Treat’ on Channel 4. The...
LONDON – Friday 27th November 2020 - The six-headed comedy band The Horne Section, fronted by star and creator of BAFTA winning Taskmaster Alex Horne, have released a charity Christmas single ‘Fiddly Christmas’ with all proceeds going to music therapy centre Nordoff...
It’s New Year’s Eve and we join Lee (Lee Mack) and Lucy (Sally Bretton), Lee’s lovably feckless father Frank (Bobby Ball), generally put upon Toby (Hugh Dennis), the ever uptight Anna (Abigail Cruttenden), Lucy’s occasionally pompous father Geoffrey (Geoffrey...
What the press said about Showbiz… "A beautifully confessional new show. His material continues to improve and this is possibly his BEST SHOW YET” Stephen Armstrong, Sunday Times “Real stand-up, real lightness of touch, real joy…” The Times, Dominic Maxwell “King of...
“Taskmaster is the show we need right now” ★★★★ Anita Singh, The Daily Telegraph “Charming, batshit, hilarious...That something so pointless, so silly, so endlessly daft should exist is just delightful” ★★★★ Lucy Mangan, The Guardian “I wish I had discovered it...
“hugely physical with his performances and relentlessly funny.” Iman Amrani, The Guardian “if anyone can put a smile on our face when it comes to the latest developments across the nation and around the globe, it's surely Russell Howard. Smart but with a more...
WITH REGGIE WATTS AS THE FIRST SPECIAL GUEST A riotous splicing of live music and comedy The Observer Genuinely clever... they really are good at music... come back soon The Daily Telegraph It's a band of professional musicians fronted by Taskmaster's Alex Horne, who...
FROM 5pm PT/8pm ET FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER “with its Trumpian body part, hideously tweeting, one of the (horribly, brilliantly) unforgettable moments of this year’s TV.” David Butcher, The Radio Times (UK) “lost none of its savagery or willingness to shock… there are,...
BOTH PARTS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON BRITBOX FROM SATURDAY MORNING 31 OCTOBER PART ONE WILL ALSO BROADCAST AS ONE OFF SPECIAL ON ITV ON SATURDAY EVENING AT 10PM “so far its resurrection is pleasingly familiar to those who remember the original... they haven’t, despite...
